Rosenhof pit
| Rosenhof pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | circa 1554 | ||
| End of operation | 1930 | ||
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| Degradation of | Lead, copper and silver | ||
| Greatest depth | 697.4 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 48 '16.8 " N , 10 ° 19' 26.7" E | ||
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| Location | west of Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| local community | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Goslar | ||
| country | State of Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Clausthal mining inspection | ||
The Rosenhof mine , also known as the Rosenhöfer Revier because of the large number of facilities , was an ore mine west of Clausthal in the Upper Harz Mountains that built on the Rosenhöfer corridor .
The mine was operated from the 16th century. It was shut down in 1930, making the mine one of the longest-running mines in the Upper Harz Mountains. The main mining products were lead, copper and silver, with silver being the main source of income.
history
From the middle of the 16th century, the development of mining on the Rosenhöfer Gangzug was initially isolated from the neighboring ore veins . Initially, the Sankt Anna , Drei Brüder , Thurmhof and Rosenhof mines were built on it . Due to the rich ore resources, all pits came in yield very quickly , which is why further shafts on the Rosenhöfer corridor were sunk.
The Fürstenstollen and from 1570 the Rabenstollen, the latter beginning in the Rabental near Frankenscharrnhütte , were excavated to dissolve water .
Around 1600 the Thurmhof and Rosenhof pits merged to form the new Thurm-Rosenhof pit . In addition, there were the pits of St. Anna , Three Brothers , Heavenly Heer and Old Blessing . In the following 17th century the pits of the Three Wise Men , Saint John and Brown Lily were built . The Old Segen mine sunk a second shaft ( Liegender Alter Segen ) and the Thurm-Rosenhof mine received a new shaft ( Unterer Thurm-Rosenhof ; the previously used one was then called Oberer Thurm-Rosenhof ).
From 1799, the new deep Georg tunnel, which was excavated within only 22 years, took over the water solution for all pits in the Rosenhöfer district, in which it brought a depth of around 250 m.
Over time, more and more formerly independent pits joined together to form larger unions. At the beginning of the 19th century only three pits were built on the Rosenhöfer gangway:
The Thurm-Rosenhof mine, which was now called Neu-Thurm-Rosenhof , now included the Brown Lilie, Zilla and Sankt Johannes shaft. The brown lily shaft, which has since been broken , was accessed via a cross passage on the bottom of the Tiefen Georg tunnel.
The Three Kings shaft was on time and crossed with the Alter Segen mine, to which it belonged.
The third pit on the Rosenhöfer gangway, Silbersegen , had meanwhile taken over the Himmlisch Heer shaft, which was very heavy at almost 45 °. At the same time, the new and seigeren Silbersegener shaft was sunk, which was to serve as the new mining shaft of the Rosenhöfer district. This was the first seigere shaft on the Rosenhöfer gangway.
In 1864 the breakthrough took place with the Ernst August tunnel , which “disinherited” the higher Tiefen Georg tunnel as a new water solution tunnel for the Upper Harz mining industry . Four years later, the sinking of the deeper Ottiliae shaft began in the adjacent rock , which from 1905 onwards together with the deepest waterway finally became the new main shaft of the pits of the Rosenhöfer, Zellerfelder and Burgstätter corridor .
In October 1878 a serious accident occurred in the Unterer Thurm-Rosenhof shaft: eleven miners died due to a break in driving skills at a depth of 345 m.
In the last phase of the Upper Harz mining, the mine, now known as the Rosenhof mine, took over the Silbersegen and Alter Segen mines. In 1905 the underground Thekla shaft was built , which replaced the Unterer Thurm-Rosenhof shaft as a new production shaft. The latter was then thrown off .
In 1930 the mine and all other pits around Clausthal-Zellerfeld were stopped due to the global economic crisis and the associated low metal prices.
Today the mines are largely backfilled, from most of the shafts only pings are visible. You can still see the surface facilities of the Ottiliae shaft and the impressive wheel rooms of the Thurm Rosenhof shaft. Both plants can be viewed via the Upper Harz Mining Museum in Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
technical description
The power water supply took place via several systems of the Upper Harz water shelf , in particular via the Upper and Lower Rosenhöfer Fall and the Bremerhöher Graben .
Shafts of the Rosenhof pit
The following list lists all the shafts in chronological order.
- Sankt Anna shaft (170 m depth)
- Three Brothers shaft (230 m depth)
- Upper Thurm-Rosenhof shaft (old shaft; 400 m depth)
- Himmlisch Heer shaft (73 m depth)
- Alter Segen shaft (430 m depth)
- Three Kings shaft (370 m depth)
- Sankt Johannes shaft (170 m depth)
- Unterer Thurm-Rosenhof shaft (new shaft; 708 m depth)
- Brown Lily Shaft (430 m depth)
- Shaft lying old blessing (430 m depth)
- Rosenbusch shaft (100 m depth)
- Silbersegener Schacht (420 m depth)
- Ottiliae shaft (594 m depth)
- Thekla shaft (242 m depth)
See also
literature
- Christoph Bartels : The development of the ore mine Turm-Rosenhof near Clausthal from the 16th to the early 19th century . In: The cut . tape 39 , 1987, pp. 45-85 .
- Wilfried Ließmann : Historical mining in the Harz . 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-31327-4 .
- Friedrich Balck : The Great Clausthal - Views of an industrial landscape and its people in the past and present . 1st edition. Fingerhut Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2001, ISBN 3-935833-02-4 .
- Schulz: Comments on mining in the Harz . In: CJB Karsten (Ed.): Archives for mining and metallurgy . tape 5 . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1822, p. 95-158 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Balck: The Great Clausthal. 2001, p. 25.
- ↑ Schulz: Comments on mining in the Harz. In: Archives for mining and metallurgy. , Volume 5, 1822, p. 95.
- ↑ Schulz: Comments on mining in the Harz. In: Archives for mining and metallurgy. , Volume 5, 1822, p. 96.
- ^ Ließmann: Historical mining in the Harz. 2010, p. 53.
- ^ Ließmann: Historical mining in the Harz. 2010, p. 162.